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SUMMARY:Rex Renee Leonowicz
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Rex Renee Leonowicz to the store to perform from when there is no one and there is everyone\, on Wednesday\, August 23rd at 7:00 pm. \nABOUT THE PERFORMANCE: The multimedia performance acts as a touring funeral party\, using drag\, poetry\, music\, and visual art/digital media to create a kind of live memorial/archive that animates the book and brings its story to life to chart the personal\, political\, and cultural moments that are living\, dying\, and rebirthing in the book. Rex will perform poems from the book and drag versions of songs that influence the text. A video collage of drawings\, art maps\, and photos will stream in the background\, along with a soundtrack of music that influenced the work. The point of the music\, visual art\, maps\, and ephemera interspliced is to pay homage to the events\, people\, and sites of protest\, grief\, and triumph present in the work\, as well as to show evidence of communities that often are invisible or displaced. Part history lesson\, part mixtape\, part memorial\, part celebration\, the project blends genres to honor and illuminate resistance movements\, our heroes\, our experiences\, failures & successes in solidarity\, art\, and community love. \nABOUT THE BOOK: when there is no one and there is everyone is a full-length collection of poetry and illustrations set for release in Summer 2017 by Magic Helicopter Press. The collection is experienced as a collage-like mixtape of techniques\, influences\, pop references\, and city cultures that explores the messiness of identity\, relationship\, and resistance in an unjust world. Its biggest concern is with landscapes of public and private space\, specifically how gentrification and intersecting oppressions play themselves out on the intimate geographies of bodies\, minds\, and cities Beyond this\, it’s a celebration of friendship\, freakdom\, and what it means when people on the margins come together to rough it out in tough times. \nABOUT THE ARTIST: Rex Renee Leonowicz is a multimedia artist\, performer\, writer\, and activist from Queens\, New York. As a poor/working class\, trans/nonbinary femme\, Rex’s art and performance work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. Rex is a gender-bending\, genre-blending artist whose work critically responds to the relationships people on the margins have with our surroundings and each other. S/he holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from Mills College and a B.A. in Gender & Women’s Studies & Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rex-renee-leonowicz/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents Dispatches From Lesbian America
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents readings by Joan Annsfire\, Xequina Maria Berber\, and Giovanna Capone from the anthology DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA on Wednesday\, August 23\, 7pm at the Nomadic Press: Uptown performance space\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland. Free refreshments and door prizes. A discussion of the anthology and book signing will follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/137277350195017 \nINFORMATION ON THE READERS: \nJOAN ANNSFIRE is a writer\, poet\, and retired librarian who lives in Berkeley. Her piece in Dispatches From Lesbian America is non-fiction\, based on her experience working at the San Francisco Water Department in the early Eighties. \nJoan’s memoir pieces have appeared most recently online in Identity Envy\, Read These Lips\, Aunt Lute Press\, and Uprooted: An Anthology of Gender and Illness. She has also been published in Lavender Review\, Sinister Wisdom\, The 13th Moon\, Bridges\, The Evergreen Chronicles\, and The Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly\, among other publications. \nHer poetry is in an upcoming anthology\, 11/9: The Fall of American Democracy\, as well as Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival\, and The Times They Were A- Changing. Headmistress Press published a chapbook of her poems\, Distant Music. \nIn her blog\, “Lavenderjoan\, somewhere under the rainbow\,” the personal and the political meet. \nXEQUINA MARIA BERBER is a storyteller\, writer\, artist\, former law librarian\, and now elementary school librarian. She came out during early middlessence and makes up for lost Gay time through her creative endeavors: short stories and comic strips celebrating Lesbian personalities and themes. She also rewrites songs to honor Dyke culture\, which are then performed for the community with her drag king partner “Johnny Magnolia.” \nShe is the author of two books\, Santora: The Good Daughter\, a Latina novel\, under the psuedonym Resurrección Cruz\, and The Mermaid Girl\, a tween and teen book\, published under her first name\, by Bedazzled Ink. She is also one of the editors of Dispatches From Lesbian America. A collection of her lesbian short stories and memoir\, The Only Female Cross-Dresser in Memphis\, is due to come out this year. Many of her stories were inspired by her girlfriend’s life. \nXequina is also an artist and paints traditional Mexican retablos (miracle stories) and santos\, as well as themes of Mexican Magical Realism. She has degrees in literature\, art\, Women’s Spirituality\, and Library and Information Science. She lives in Oakland with her partner and their two bad cats. \nGIOVANNA CAPONE is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She was raised in an Italian-American neighborhood in Mt. Vernon\, New York\, whose strong Neapolitan influence still resonates in her life. \nHer work has appeared widely in various publications\, including Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent; Bless Me Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood; Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry; Avanti Opolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus; Queer View Mirror 2\, Lesbian & Gay Short Fiction; What I Want From You: An Anthology of East Bay Lesbian Poets; and Fuori: Essays by Italian/American Lesbians and Gays. \nMost recently Giovanna edited the collection Words on Fire! An Anthology of Teen Voices as part of her master’s degree in Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. \nGiovanna’s first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna See Women’s Performance Project\, in their first Dyke Drama Festival. She is also a mixed media collage artist and has exhibited her visual art in venues throughout the Bay Area.\nShe lives in Oakland\, where for many years she has taught poetry writing workshops to children and teens through California Poets in the Schools. Find out more at www.giovannacapone.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-presents-dispatches-from-lesbian-america/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum
DESCRIPTION:1. Tania Martin\, TBA\n2. Deiana Hristov\, “Witching Hour Child Ghosts”\n3. Direct from Cinequest! The Invasive Species (Kimy Martinez\, Nicole Alexander\, Alecia Parke\, and Lori Mahaffey) 1. Pass The Salt\, I’m A Section 8 Valley Girl and. Rules Broken\n4. Mike Karpa\, “Make a Muscle”\n5. Ann Hillesland\, “About My Mother” \nINTERMISSION \n6. Suzy Huerta\, “Mother Tongue”\n7. Erin Redfern\, “Velveteria”\n8. Julia Halprin-Jackson\, “Blossom” and “Maximum Capacity”\n9. Laura Diaz\, “Roots”\n10. Kevin Sharp\, “His and Hers\,” chapter from novel-in-progress\n11. Mighty Mike McGee\, identity piece (performed at Cinequest and other venues)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-4/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Melba Joyce Boyd\, M.L. Liebler\, + Brian Jabas Smith
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, editor\, and professor Melba Joyce Boyd’s book\, Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press\, is a tribute to Dudley Randall (1914-2000) with whom she worked as an editor at Broadside Press and whose authorized biographer she became. Randall was poet laureate of Detroit\, a civil rights activist\, and a force in the Black Arts Movement. Two of his poems\, one for the four little girls killed in the Alabama church bombing in Birmingham\, one for the assassination of President Kennedy\, were set to music by folk singer Jerry Moore in 1965. Randall published them as broadsides\, so the press\, publishing chapbooks that opened out the work of African American writers into the canon of American literature\, was born. Boyd’s book\, connecting politics and art with the wider struggles of black America in that era\, is also a dialogue between poets and includes extensive interviews. She\, herself\, has published six books of poetry\, edited an anthology of Detroit poetry\, written scholarly books\, and produced and directed a documentary film on Randall and the press. \nM.L. Liebler is a celebrated poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. Most recent of his many books of poetry is I Want to Be Once; others include The Moon a Box and Written in Rain: New and Selected Poems\, 1985-2000. He’s edited many books\, ranging across labor politics\, music\, and poetry\, and his brand new one is Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond\, with a wide range of contributors\, including Greil Marcus and Al Young. \nBrian Jabas Smith’s debut book of fiction is Spent Saints & Other Stories. Jim Daniels says\, “In these fine stories\, Brian Smith’s direct\, natural\, story-telling voice rocks with the authority and grit of someone who’s been there and come back to tell the tale.” Smith is an award-winning journalist\, first as a staff writer and columnist for the Phoenix New Times and then as an editor for the Detroit Metro Times. His earlier career was as a songwriter who fronted rock’n’roll bands. He’s written for many performers\, including Alice Cooper.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-melba-joyce-boyd-m-l-liebler-brian-jabas-smith/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (2013)\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Brynn was born and raised in Fresno. Currently\, she teaches and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, Prairie Schooner\, andA Public Space. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, he is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and Stanford University\, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. \nEmily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes\, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize at Tupelo Press. Her poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, Apogee\, The Literary Review\, and elsewhere. For her poetry\, she has received awards and fellowships from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest\, AWP’s WC&C Scholarship Competition\, The Home School in Miami\, Aspen Words\, New York University\, the University of Chicago\, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She is the Poetry Editor for The Margins\, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, and is a PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, September 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening\, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening\, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine\, fun\, and fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-grotto-writers-3-minute-reads-3/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170826T163000
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SUMMARY:15th Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate poets who make things happen in our communities and to honor Naomi Helena Quiñonez with a Lifetime Achievement Award \nHost\nBaruch Porras-Hernandez \nInvocation of the Muse\nJohn Oliver Simon \nReaders\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nLeticia Hernández-Linares\nCassandra Dallett\nTiff Dressen\nNancy Aidé González\nJuba Kalamka\nMarguerite Munoz\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nRené Vaz\nShelley Wong \nMilvia Street readers\nYoussef Ahalla\nJalyce Fairley\nFungai Gora\nJulian Mithra\nJulie Southworth \nCo-directed by MK Chavez and Sharon Coleman\nSponsored by the City of Berkeley and Berkeley City College
URL:https://litseen.com/event/15th-annual-berkeley-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Berkeley City College\, 2050 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck + Jennifer Barone featuring at La Palabra Musical
DESCRIPTION:La Palabra Musical (The Musical Word)\, hosted by Avotcja! \nFeatured poets: Kim Shuck (SF Poet Laureate!)\, Jennifer Barone\, Kirk Lumpkin\, and N-Side the Healer reading from their latest work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-shuck-jennifer-barone-featuring-at-la-palabra-musical/
LOCATION:Cesar E. Chavez Oakland Public Library\, 3301 East 12th Street\, Suite 271\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Grant Jarrett: The Half-Life of Remorse
DESCRIPTION:In The Half-Life of Remorse\, three life-scarred people are brought together to confront each other thirty years after the brutal crime that shattered their lives. \nWhen two vagrants meet on the streets of Muncie\, Indiana\, they are both unaware that their paths crossed years before. Chic\, crude and uneducated\, is convinced that Sam is nothing more than a harmless lunatic\, and Sam\, emotionally scarred and psychologically traumatized by events long past\, regards Chic as just another denizen of the street. But Chic has spent his adult life trying to purge his soul of the brutal crime he committed as a teenager?the same botched burglary that resulted in the deaths of Sam’s wife and son. Meanwhile\, Sam’s daughter Claire is still unable to give up hope that her father might someday reappear. When these three lives converge\, the puzzle of the past gradually falls together\, but redemption commands a high price\, and what is revealed will test the limits of love and challenge the human capacity for forgiveness. \nGrant Jarrett lived in Manhattan for twenty years before moving to Marin County\, CA\, where he now works as a writer\, ghostwriter\, editor\, musician\, and occasional songwriter. His publishing credits include numerous magazine articles\, essays\, short stories\, and More Towels\, his coming-of-age memoir about life on the road. His debut novel\, Ways of Leaving\, won the Best New Fiction category in the 2014 International Book Awards. The House That Made Me\, his 2016 anthology about the meaning of home\, was chosen as an Elle “Trust Us” book. Jarrett is an avid cyclist\, skier\, and surf skier.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grant-jarrett-the-half-life-of-remorse/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Zevin: Young Jane Young
DESCRIPTION:Aviva Grossman\, an ambitious congressional intern in Florida\, makes the mistake of having an affair with her boss–and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light\, the beloved congressman doesn’t take the fall. But Aviva does\, and her life is over before it hardly begins: slut-shamed\, she becomes a late-night talk show punch line\, anathema to politics. \nShe sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. This time\, she tries to be smarter about her life and strives to raise her daughter\, Ruby\, to be strong and confident. But when\, at the urging of others\, Aviva decides to run for public office herself\, that long-ago mistake trails her via the Internet and catches up–an inescapable scarlet A. In the digital age\, the past is never\, ever\, truly past. And it’s only a matter of time until Ruby finds out who her mother was and is forced to reconcile that person with the one she knows. \nYoung Jane Young is a smart\, funny\, and moving novel about what it means to be a woman of any age\, and captures not just the mood of our recent highly charged political season\, but also the double standards alive and well in every aspect of life for women. \nGabrielle Zevin is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her eighth novel\, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry\, spent more than four months on the New York Times Bestseller list\, reached #1 on the National Indie Bestseller list\, and has been a bestseller all around the world. She has also written books for children and young adults\, including the award-winning Elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabrielle-zevin-young-jane-young/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: A "Confessional" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Reveal your skeletons and air your dirty laundry this month at Saturday Night Special! We want to hear your dirty secrets and burning confessions\, that thing you did\, that you shouldn’t have done. Come share your sins\, real or imagined\, yours or someone else’s. Our theme this month is: Confession. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur August features are: Vernon Keeve III and Joel Landmine\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, August 26th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nVernon Keeve III is a writer from Fredericksburg\, Virginia\, and a California-made educator. He currently teaches high school English and history in Oakland\, and has a book Southern Migrant Mixtape in its final stages of publication with Nomadic Press–look for it in the Fall. \nJoel Landmine’s work has never been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Yeah\, Well…\, his first collection of poems\, is available from Punk Hostage Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-confessional-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Florey's
DESCRIPTION:Come and share the joy of writing\, reading\, and poetry!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-floreys/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Florey's Book Co.":MAILTO:FloreysBookCo@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170827T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash tribute to "Heaven Was Detroit" w/ M.L. Liebler + Greil Marcus
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts a special installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, August 27th at 3pm. Editor M.L. Liebler and contributor Greil Marcus will be here to discuss Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nHeaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays\, and a few classics\, by widely known and respected music writers\, critics\, and recording artists who weigh in on their careers and experiences in the Detroit music scene\, from rock to jazz and everything in between. With a foreword by the acclaimed rock writer Dave Marsh and iconic photos by Leni Sinclair\, the book features such well-known writers as Greil Marcus\, Jaan Uhelszki\, Al Young\, Susan Whitall\, Gary Graff\, John Sinclair\, and many others.\nDivided into nine sections\, the book moves chronologically through the early days of jazz in Detroit\, to the rock ‘n’ roll of the 1960s\, and up to today’s electronica scene\, with so many groundbreaking moments in between. This collection of cohesive essays includes Motown’s connection to the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement through its side label\, Black Forum Records; Lester Bangs’s exemplary piece on Alice Cooper; the story behind the emergence of rap legend Eminem; and Craig Maki’s enlightening history on “hillbilly rock” – just to name a few. With a rich musical tradition to rival Nashville\, Detroit serves as the inspiration\, backdrop\, and playground for some of the most influential music artists of the past century.\nHeaven Was Detroit captures the essence of the Detroit music scene: the grit\, the spark\, the desire to tell a story set to the rhythm of the city. Fans of any music genre will find something that speaks to them in the pages of this collection. \nM. L. Liebler is an award-winning poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. He is the author of several books of poetry\, including I Want to Be Once\, and editor of the anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams. He is also co-editor of Bob Seger’s House and Other Stories. Liebler has taught at Wayne State University since 1980. \nGreil Marcus’s books include Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music\, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century\, and The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs. He teaches at Berkeley and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-tribute-to-heaven-was-detroit-w-m-l-liebler-greil-marcus/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Racket #10: BIRTH
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly reading series returns with a bevy of writers talking about BIRTH. \nIs it pregnancy? Metamorphosis? A staggering change in life? Well\, we’ll find out. \nOur readers: KAR A. Johnson\, Miah Jeffra\, Mike Hsu\, Jennifer Lewis and Shideh Etaat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-10-birth/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Georgette Howington
DESCRIPTION:Georgette Howington is a closet poet and short story writer who came out three years ago. Her poems are published in Iodine\, Sleet and Poeming Pigeons\, among others. Several poems won Honorable Mentions at the North American Women’s Music Festival and Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest in 2016. As a naturalist and horticulturist\, her niche is Backyard Habitat and secondary-cavity nesters. She is a County Coordinator and Assistant State Program Director for the California Bluebird Recovery Program and an activist in the conservation community in the SF Bay Area for over 30 years. Georgette is also a published garden and environmental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/georgette-howington/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170828T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T210000
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CREATED:20170822T225546Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Currier - Marin Shakespeare Company
DESCRIPTION:“A Labour of Love” \nJoin Marin Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Robert Currier and Marin Shakespeare actors as they discuss the complex wordplay and sly wit of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost\, playing through September 24 at Dominican University’s Forest Meadows Amphitheater. \nClick here to purchase tickets
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-currier-marin-shakespeare-company/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T193000
DTSTAMP:20260410T085532
CREATED:20170718T040545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T115501Z
UID:27935-1504031400-1504035000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone\, host of the WordParty poetry and jazz series and author of “Saporoso – poems of Italian food and love” will be reading from new work along with poet James Cagney\, reading from his latest. Hosted by Jack Hirschman and the North Beach Library. \nvisit: www.jenniferbarone.wordpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-and-james-cagney/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T085532
CREATED:20170815T005951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T005951Z
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SUMMARY:The Singing Ship Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Noe Valley Author Rebecca Winterer discusses her debut novel\, The Singing Ship\, in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell Tuesday\, August 29\, 7 p.m. at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Pursell is the organizer of the North Bay reading series Why There Are Words. The Singing Ship\, “a novel about traversing boundaries\,” is set in Winterer’s native Australia. It won the Del Sol Press First Novel Prize. It is the story of two sisters who fight an unorthodox battle for truth after an attack in the Australian Outback. Free admission\, champagne\, and cake. An author signing follows the discussion. www.facebook.com/events/124981894791558
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-singing-ship-book-launch/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T085532
CREATED:20170621T130322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T130322Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Magariel
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Magariel discusses his new book\, One of the Boys. \n\nPraise for One of the Boys \n“Brilliant\, urgent\, darkly funny\, heartbreaking—a tour de force with startling new things to say about class\, masculinity\, addiction\, and family.  Daniel Magariel is an exciting new presence in American writing.” (George Saunders\, author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo) \n“Precise and coiled and urgent. Magariel is able–as few writers can–to say so much in so little. A propulsive and intense debut.” (Hanya Yanagihara\, author of A Little Life) \n“With a charismatic\, macho\, drug-addicted dad\, the young narrator pays an awful price to be One of the Boys in the riveting debut novel by Daniel Magariel. Move over Great Santini\, this patriarch is rendered with such artful love\, you’ll be haunted by his presence long after you close this graceful and heartbreaking book.” (Mary Karr\, author of Lit and The Liar’s Club) \n\nAbout One of the Boys \nThe three of them—a twelve-year-old boy\, his older brother\, their father—have won the war: the father’s term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave their Kansas home and drive through the night to Albuquerque\, eager to begin again\, united by the thrilling possibility of carving out a new life together. The boys go to school\, join basketball teams\, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home\, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. But soon the little missteps—the dead-eyed absentmindedness\, the late night noises\, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters—become worrisome\, and the boys find themselves watching their father change\, grow erratic\, then dangerous. \n\nSet in the sublimely stark landscape of suburban New Mexico and a cramped apartment shut tight to the world\, One of the Boys conveys with propulsive prose and extraordinary compassion a young boy’s struggle to hold onto the pieces of his shattered family. Tender\, moving and beautiful\, Daniel Magariel’s masterful debut is a story of resilience and survival: two foxhole-weary brothers banding together to protect each other from the father they once trusted\, but no longer recognize. With the emotional core of A Little Life and the speed of We the Animals\, One of the Boys is among the most remarkable debut novels you’ll ever read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-magariel/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170830T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170830T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T085532
CREATED:20170822T071324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T225722Z
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SUMMARY:An Expensive Hoax: Environmental Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:“Snowing in Texas and Louisiana\, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!” —Donald J. Trump\, Jan. 29\, 2014  \nAnd with that tweet\, the would-be President of the United States declared war on the environment. Donald Trump has also opined that climate change was invented by the Chinese to hurt U.S. manufacturing\, tweeted that wind power is dangerous for our health\, deregulated mining waste disposal\, forced the EPA to delete mentions of global warming on its website\, and taken aim at national monuments\, with an eye toward stripping them of their protected status. \nAnd that’s only in the first six months of his presidency. Where will this lead? What can writers and activists do to stem the tide of anti-environmental actions?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-expensive-hoax-environmental-writers-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170830T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170830T213000
DTSTAMP:20260410T085532
CREATED:20170621T130438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T130438Z
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Tallent
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Tallent discusses his new novel\, My Absolute Darling. \n\nPraise for My Absolute Darling \n“There are books we like well enough to recommend\, but there are a very few— To Kill a Mockingbird\, Catch-22\, The Things They Carried— that we remember forever. To my own shortlist I can now add My Absolute Darling\, by Gabriel Tallent. Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston is a brilliantly rendered creation\, and her father is the most terrifyingly believable human monster to inhabit the pages of a novel since Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter. This book is ugly\, beautiful\, horrifying\, and uplifting.” —Stephen King \n“I read My Absolute Darling in one sitting\, well past midnight\, despite an early-morning flight: the book is that impossible to put down. Gabriel Tallent depicts Turtle’s battle for her independence–body\, mind\, and soul–with brutal honesty and overwhelming tenderness. The result is a heartrending debut that will shock\, then shake\, then inspire you.” —Celeste Ng\, New York Times-bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n“It is unreal how vivid and compelling this book is. Turtle Alveston is one of the most vibrant characters I’ve come across in a long time\, and every scene in this astonishing novel packs so much tension\, so much insight\, such beautiful prose and such masterful handling of detail\, I simply could not stop reading.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment \n\nAbout My Absolute Darling \nTurtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen\, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks\, tide pools\, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds\, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive\, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother\, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father\, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone\, student or teacher\, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. \nThen Turtle meets Jacob\, a high-school boy who tells jokes\, lives in a big clean house\, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time\, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush\, Turtle starts to imagine escape\, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage\, and watches\, heart in throat\, as she struggles to become her own hero–and in the process\, becomes ours as well. \nShot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting\, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told\, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-tallent/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170831T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170831T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T085532
CREATED:20170824T051754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T004150Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Annual Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:featuring: Cecil Giscombe \nRobert Hass \nLyn Hejinian \nGeoffrey G. O’Brien \nJohn Shoptaw \nand giovani singleton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-annual-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170831T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170831T210000
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CREATED:20170816T004859Z
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim + Nellie Wong
DESCRIPTION:Genny Lim is the SFJAZZ poet laureate. She has performed in poetry and music collaborations with the late jazz legends Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Fred Ho\, and with Bay Area musicians John Santos\, Francis Wong and Jon Jang. She has also been featured at World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Bosnia and Italy. Her award-winning play Paper Angels aired on PBS’ American Playhouse in 1985 and was reprised in 2010 at San Francisco Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square\, receiving the San Francisco Fringe Festival’s Best Site-Specific Award. Lim’s performance piece with drummer Marshall Trammell\, Don’t Shoot! A Requiem in Black\, dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, premiered at Safe House this last April to sold-out houses and will be performed at next year’s SF Jazz Poetry Festival at the SFJazz Center. Lim is author of four poetry collections: Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels and KRA!\, and she is co-author of the seminal Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. \nNellie Wong is the author of four books of poetry: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. Most recently she edited Talking Back: Voices of Color (Red Letter Press\, 2015)\, a collection of essays and interviews advancing the views of a multiracial\, intergenerational mix of 30 black\, Latina/o\, Indigenous\, Asian Pacific American\, Palestinian and LGBTQ community organizers. The first-born daughter of Chinese immigrants in Oakland\, Wong is active with Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party and has worked as a secretary and administrative assistant and affirmative action analyst. She was a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council for University Professional and Technical Employees. Wong has taught at Mills College and University of Minnesota. Wong has traveled with Alice Walker\, Tillie Olsen\, Paule Marshall and other delegates on the first U.S. Women Writers Tour to China\, and has read throughout the U.S. and in Australia and Cuba. Her work has been translated into Spanish\, Chinese\, French and Italian. She’s featured with Mitsuye Yamada in the documentary film\, Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets\, by Allie Light and Irving Saraf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-nellie-wong/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170831T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170831T213000
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CREATED:20170703T111506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170707T003610Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Mazza
DESCRIPTION:Michael Mazza discusses his new novel\, That Crazy Perfect Someday. \nThe year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world’s wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky\, cars drive themselves\, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long\, UCSD marine biology grad\, champion surfer\, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave\, still has something to prove. Having achieved Internet fame\, along with sponsorship from Google and Nike\, she’s intent on winning Olympic gold. But when her father\, a clinically depressed former Navy captain and widower\, learns that his beloved supercarrier\, the USS Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is to be sunk\, he draws Mafuri into a powerful undertow. Conflicts compound as Mafuri’s personal life comes undone via social media\, and a vicious Aussie competitor levels bogus doping charges against her. Mafuri forms an unlikely friendship with an awkward teen\, a Ferrari-driving professional gamer who will prove to be her support and ballast. Authentic\, brutal\, and at times funny\, Mafuri lays it all out in a sprightly\, hot-wired voice. From San Diego to Sydney\, Key West\, and Manila\, That Crazy Perfect Someday goes beyond the sports/surf cliché to explore the depths of sorrow and hope\, yearning and family bonds\, and the bootstrap power of a bold young woman climbing back into the light. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mazza/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170902T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170902T180000
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CREATED:20170812T002405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170812T002405Z
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SUMMARY:Ripped from the Headlines! Poets Reading the News at Beast Crawl
DESCRIPTION:With a news cycle like ours\, we need poetry. Come hear poetic reflections on the news from legendary writers Arisa White & Moira Roth\, along with the editors of Poets Reading the News\, Jenna Spagnolo and Elle Aviv Newton\, at Oakland’s Beast Crawl. \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over three hours and thirty-eight local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nPOETS READING THE NEWS is the world’s only newspaper written entirely by poets. We publish work from around the world online atwww.poetsreadingthenews.com and host an events series in Oakland\, California. \nARISA WHITE\, author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened\, Black Pearl\, and Hurrah’s Nest\, is a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She can be found online at arisawhite.com. \nMOIRA ROTH is an art historian\, writer\, and playwright. She has published extensively including Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism\, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. She has a “News from the cafe” series on Poets Reading the News.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ripped-from-the-headlines-poets-reading-the-news-at-beast-crawl/
LOCATION:Itani Ramen\, 1736 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Poets Reading the News":MAILTO:editors@poetsreadingthenews.com
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CREATED:20170808T112731Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017
DESCRIPTION:BEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over four hours and thirty-seven local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nEach leg of The Beast lasts one hour\, and offers a dozen different readings to chose from. There’s a half hour break between literary legs for socializing and relocating to a new venue before the next reading begins. We recommend choosing one reading per leg. You can even plan your route in advance. \n\nCrawl maps\, curators\, readers\, and venues are all searchable on our website: beastcrawl.weebly.com. \nPrinted crawl maps will be available on the day of the festival at all the Leg 1 events\, and at the Beast Crawl Information Table in front of The Legionnaire Saloon. \nEveryone is invited to the Leg 4 After Parties (marked with stars on the crawl map) starting at 9pm at The Legionnaire Saloon (drinks\, dancing\, 21+) and Telegraph Beer Garden (food\, drinks\, all ages). \nEvery city should have its own unique literary identity\, and Beast Crawl is the beating literary heart of Oakland. \nBeast Crawl Literary Festival\nSaturday\, September 2\, 2017\n5pm – 9pm readings\n9:30pm – 2am afterparty\nUptown Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017/
LOCATION:Uptown Oakland\, Oakland
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170902T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170902T193000
DTSTAMP:20260410T085532
CREATED:20170718T040048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T040048Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017 Presents: Saturday Night Special
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Night Special is an open mic literary reading series regularly held at Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley on the last Saturday of every month\, with a huge following and a reputation for being diverse\, loud\, gritty\, sexy\, inclusive\, and loaded with local talent. \nFor Beast Crawl 2017 we’re bringing together some of our favorite writers to rock the festival at the Telegraph Beer Garden: \nPeter Thomas\, Hollie Hardy\, Kwesi Wilkerson\, G Macias Gusman\, Lisa Martinovic\, and musical guest Dillie Dauley \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nSaturday\, Sept. 2\, 2017\nLEG 2 of the Beast (6:30pm – 7:30pm)\nTelegraph Beer Garden\n2318 Telegraph Ave (between 24th & 25th) \nLike our FB page to find more details about upcoming Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay open mic events and photos from past events! \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over four hours and thirty-seven local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nFind out more about Beast Crawl Lit Fest at beastcrawl.weebly.com \nBIOS: \nPETER THOMAS BULLEN is confused about bios. Do you discuss pivotal moments in your life\, assuming there were pivotal moments\, or do you discuss your heartbreaking lack of pivotal moments\, or do you discuss your phobias\, your first girlfriend Phoebe\, or something else beginning with p\, like your own name? Or do you list literary credits? If you list literary credits\, then mine come down to sPARKLE & bLINK\, Eleven Eleven\, LA Review of Books\, Red Light Lit\, Sweet Wolverine\, and Oakland Review. Plus I have a chapbook out from Nomadic Press titled Wallflower\, which I am shy and excited about. \nHOLLIE HARDY is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, winner of the 2016 Annual Poetry Center Book Award. She teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute and Berkeley City College\, hosts Saturday Night Special\, An East Bay Open Mic\, and is a core producer of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival. Her website is: www.holliehardy.com \nTERRON “KWESI” WILKERSON started writing poetry during his time abroad in Ghana\, West Africa. It began as a personal keepsake and evolved into his first book\, Pieces of My Soul\, Vol. 1. Kwesi now performs at venues throughout the Bay Area\, most recently during an event at Twitter Headquarters. Stay connected by following @KwesiDreams on social media. And find out more at KwesiDreams.com! \nG. MACIAS GUSMAN lives in Oakland California writing prose poems to the factories\, mountains\, and ditches that enslave many a good women/ men and the bars they escape too. He’s had work published in a few tight rags and has performed around the Bay Area. G. Macias is still discovering himself and his voice. \nLISA MARTINOVIC has performed on stages from LitQuake to Lollapalooza. Her work appears in publications as diverse as the San Francisco Chronicle and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Lisa feeds her beast by writing: slam poetry\, flash fiction\, gritty memoir\, and essays about neuroplasticity and addiction. Yeah\, her beast is voracious. \nMusical Guest: \nDILLIE DAULEY has been playing Folk Punk Americana on ukulele and viola for twelve years. She toured the country with her former band Ghost Town Gospel\, and is currently performing with Vagabondage. She is constantly working on writing new music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017-presents-saturday-night-special/
LOCATION:Telegraph Beer Garden\, 2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T193000
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CREATED:20170622T062055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170623T022601Z
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SUMMARY:Achy Obejas
DESCRIPTION:The Cubans in Achy Obejas’s new story collection The Tower of the Antilles are haunted by an island: the island they fled\, the island they’ve created\, the island they were taken to or forced from\, the island they long for\, the island they return to\, and the island that can never be home again. With language that is both generous and sensual\, Obejas writes about lives beset by events beyond individual control\, and poignantly captures how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives.\nACHY OBEJAS is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir\, and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many others. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland\, California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/achy-obejas-2/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170905T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T210000
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CREATED:20170622T001710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T001710Z
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: Book Swap
DESCRIPTION:Book Swap! \nat Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pour House \n2504 S. Main Street\, Soquel \nEvent #6 of Bookshop’s 2017 Books & Brews Passport Series \n\nOur last bookish beer-bash of the season! Have you ever loved a book so much that you wanted to read passages of it to people around you and share it with all your friends? Bookshop’s Books & Brews Book Swap offers passionate readers a chance to promote their favorite books and go home with a new discovery–while also enjoying delicious brews at Beer Thirty. Bring one of your favorite books (that you are willing to give away) and join a small group to talk about your books\, then listen to others sell you theirs–you’ll have 90 seconds\, and we’ll have a timer. Then we swap\, White Elephant-style (except you’ll actually want the gift you get)! \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer: Our friends at Beer Thirty will generously offer 20% off all purchases (including retail) to attendees on the date of this event. \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \n*Remember that you must bring a book to participate in this event.*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-book-swap-2/
LOCATION:Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pour House\, 2504 S. Main Street\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T213000
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder w/ Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Matthew Zapruder \n“Zapruder’s poems don’t merely attempt beauty; they attain it.”—The Boston Review \n\n“Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture.”—The New York Times \n\n“With dynamic\, logically complex sentences\, Zapruder posits a world that is both extraordinary and refreshingly ordinary.”—BOMB \n\nAbout Why Poetry \nAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers\, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder \n  \nIn Why Poetry\, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry–and poetry alone–can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively\, lilting prose\, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. \n  \nZapruder explores what poems are\, and how we can read them\, so that we can\, as Whitman wrote\, -possess the origin of all poems\, – without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important\, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. \n  \nAnchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form\, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational\, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement\, metaphor\, and negative capability\, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read\, and enjoyed\, by anyone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-w-natalie-baszile/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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